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* [[Tear Jerker]]: Henrietta Clavard and Petra Searles conversation before they died.
** Sammy's {{spoiler|gang rape}}.
* [[They Copied It, So It Sucks]] - A common criticism against the book is that [[Stephen King]] merely ripped off [[The Simpsons]] [[The Movie|movie]] when Stephen King claims to have never even seen the movie. In actuality, [[Older Than They Think|stories about domed cities have been told for decades]] and Stephen King had originally come up with the idea in 1976. If those people leveling the accusation had bothered to [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|actually read the book]], they'd realize that it really isn't anything like The Simpsons movie anyway.
** ''[[The Simpsons]]'' even referenced these criticisms in a 2010 episode. Mr. Burns threatens to trap Springfield under a dome, but when he's told it's been done before, he is surprised because he thought the idea came from King's book.
** The idea of a dome suddenly appearing over a city pops up in 1965, with [[Clifford Simak]]'s ''All Flesh is Grass'', and in 1988, with Robert [[Mc Cammon]]'s ''Stinger'', so it's hardly a ripoff, but an idea.
* [[The Woobie]]: Poor Ollie Dinsmore. By the end of the book {{spoiler|his whole family is dead, from one accidental suicide and two quite purposeful ones. He even witnesses his brother's accidental suicide, and sees the aftermath of his mother's and father's.}}
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Andy Sanders, who at the beginning of the book is regarded as Jim Rennie's stupid, easily manipulated figurehead. His wife is one of the first people killed when she, and a man whom she may or may not have been in an affair with, crash a plane into the side of the Dome. Very soon after this, {{spoiler|Andy's daughter, Dodee, is murdered and raped by Junior Rennie simply because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. After her body is discovered, Andy nearly commits suicide, then chooses instead to confront Chef, an insane tweeker, and probably get killed in the process. Instead of this, Chef gets Andy hooked on meth and gives him an AK-47, recruiting him into his "holy army". The pair then proceed to massacre an entire squadron of policemen and blow up the meth lab, all but wiping out the town's population in the process.}}
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